# Chemical LaTeX typeset

1. Nov 16, 2003

### Monique

Staff Emeritus
Physicsforums now has a very cool feature, which enables complex typesetting for formulas or equations!

A tutorial is on the following page:
https://www.physicsforums.com/misc/howtolatex.pdf
The topic is also explained in the following thread:

The feature is LaTeX and the following is possible::

$$^{33}_{17}Cl^{16}\xrightarrow{n,n}~^{31}_{15}P^{16}+~^4_2He^2$$

Not long ago we had to write::
33 (1) 31 4
17 Cl + 2(0)n -----> 15 P + 2 He

Causing much confusion as you can imagine
So play around with some formulas if you like, click on the LaTeX image to popup the code with which it was written.

To explain the basics:
_ is subscript
^ is superscript
{} are delimiters, to keep text together
~ is a space

So the code in the above formula is::
[ tex]^{33}_{17}Cl^{16}\xrightarrow{n,n}~^{31}_{15}P^{16}+~^4_2He^2[ /tex]

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2. Nov 16, 2003

### Monique

Staff Emeritus
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation:

$$pH=pK_a+log\frac{[A^-]}{[HA]}$$

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3. Nov 16, 2003

### Monique

Staff Emeritus
Michaelis-Menten equation

$$V=\frac{k_2[E]_t}{K_M+}$$

or

$$6CO_2+6H_2O\xrightarrow{Light~Energy}C_6H_{12}O_6+CO_2~~~\Delta G^\circ=+2870kJ/mol$$

If I can do it, anyone can!

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4. Nov 16, 2003

### Ambitwistor

$$\newcommand{\atom}[ 4 ]{{}^{#1}_{#2} {#3}^{#4}} \atom{33}{17}{Cl}{16} \xrightarrow{n,n} \atom{31}{15}{P}{16} + \atom{4}{2}{He}{2}$$

$$pH = pK_a + \log\frac{[A^-]}{[HA]}$$

\begin{equation*} \begin{align} &6CO_2+6H_2O\xrightarrow{\textit{Light Energy}}C_6H_{12}O_6+CO_2 \\ &\Delta G^\circ=+2870~\textrm{kJ/mol} \end{align} \end{equation*}

5. Nov 16, 2003

### Monique

Staff Emeritus
Ambitwistor is not such a simple soul as me

I actually noticed that I am putting in too many spacers (~), those are not always necessary next to '+' or '\xrightarrow' or '='

6. Nov 16, 2003

### Ambitwistor

In fact, they're almost never necessary; TeX is smart enough in most cases to get the spacing right. If you want to add more spacing, use /, (not ~, that's to prevent line breaks), and if you want to remove spacing, use /; --- but use them sparingly. (There are well-known cases where TeX isn't smart and you need to use them, though; not enough spaces in integrals and too many spaces in bra-kets.)

7. Nov 23, 2003

### Jeebus

Enthalpy of Vaporization
The amount of energy to change 1 g of liquid to gas at its boiling point. For water,

$$\Delta H_{vap} = 540~cal~g^{-1}$$

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8. Nov 23, 2003

### Ambitwistor

$$\Delta H_\textrm{vap} = 540 \mbox{ cal~g}^{-1}$$

9. Dec 6, 2003

### Another God

Staff Emeritus
OK, exams are over so I have no reason to not learn this stuff now.... here I go.

Moniques version...
$$^{33}_{17}{Cl}^{16} \xrightarrow{n,n} ^{31}_{15}P^{16} +~^4_2He^2$$

Ambitwistors version...
$$\newcommand{\atom} [ 4 ] { ^{#1}_{#2} {#3}^{#4}} \atom {33}{17}{Cl}{16} \xrightarrow{n,n} \atom {31}{15}{P}{16}+\atom {4}{2}{He}{2}$$

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10. Dec 6, 2003

### Another God

Staff Emeritus
$${pH} = {pK_a} + \log\frac{[A^-]}{[HA]} \\ V = \frac{k_2{[E]}+{}}{K_m + {}} \\ 6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light Energy} C_6H_{12}O_6 + CO_2 \ \delta G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$$
Oh, ok, so \\ can only be used as part of an equation to start a new line. To do different equations, you have to use diferent tex flags i guess...?

And why didn't my C6H12) finish....

$${pH} = {pK_a} + \log\frac{[A^-]}{[HA]}$$

$$V = \frac{k_2{[E]}_t{}}{K_M + {}}$$

Now, will this come up as I want it to? $6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light Energy} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2 \delta G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$ Lets find out...

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11. Dec 6, 2003

### Another God

Staff Emeritus
wow, capitals matter.

that should have been $\Delta$ not $\delta$.

So

$6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light Energy} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2 ~\Delta G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$

12. Dec 6, 2003

### Another God

Staff Emeritus
that \ thing never does what I want...$6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light\Energy} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2 ~\Delta \ \ \ \G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$

Maybe I should use that comma? $6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light/,Energy} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2 ~\Delta /, /, /, G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$

$6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light\,Energy} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2 ~\Delta \, \, \, G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$
I think i prefer the tilde (~) key...$6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{Light~Energy} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2 ~\Delta~~~G^{\circ} = +2870kJ/mol$

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13. Dec 6, 2003

### Ambitwistor

$6CO_2 + 6H_2O \xrightarrow{\mathit{Light Energy}} C_6 H_{12} O_6 + CO_2, \Delta G^{\circ} = +2870~\mathrm{kJ/mol}$

14. Dec 6, 2003

### Monique

Staff Emeritus
You are using itex, that stands for inline?

tex
$$^{33}_{17}{Cl}^{16} \xrightarrow{n,n} ^{31}_{15}P^{16} +~^4_2He^2$$

inline
$$\inline{^{33}_{17}{Cl}^{16} \xrightarrow{n,n} ^{31}_{15}P^{16} +~^4_2He^2}$$

itex
$^{33}_{17}{Cl}^{16} \xrightarrow{n,n} ^{31}_{15}P^{16} +~^4_2He^2$

Apparently :) that's cool!

15. Dec 6, 2003

### Another God

Staff Emeritus
It would be nice if it $did fit inline$ a little better though. At the moment it sits a little low and disrupts the line below, so it doesn't look quite as neat.

16. Dec 6, 2003

### Another God

Staff Emeritus
I $stand~corrected$. I guess it depends on the physical size of the formula and stuff. It does a good job of fitting it where it can.

17. Nov 6, 2004

### chem_tr

Could you give some information about how to use this typeset in another place?

18. Nov 25, 2004

### Sirus

If you mean how to use it outside of PF, you need to download a program such as miktex (www.miktex.org).

19. Nov 26, 2004

### dextercioby

Thanks for the link,Sirus.Maybe i'll get read of the old Scientific Workplace that i'm using now.

20. Nov 26, 2004

### Sirus

For small applications, you can preview a post on PF with the required code in it, then copy and paste the latex into MS Word or another word processing application. This is discouraged, however, to avoid excess traffic on the PF server (copy/pasting Latex is not, after all, the purpose of PF).

21. Feb 17, 2005

### GCT

Trying it out,

$$H^+ _{(aq)} + OH^- _{(aq)} \xrightarrow~H_2 O _{(l)}$$

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22. Feb 17, 2005

### GCT

I should be studying,

$$1/p + 1/q = 1/f$$

23. Feb 17, 2005

### GCT

this is killing me

$${\Delta G} = {\Delta G^_o} - RT\textit{lnQ}$$

from my current physics course
lens maker's equation
$$\frac{n_1}{p} + \frac{n_2}{q} = (n_1-1) \left[ \frac{1}{R_1} - \frac{1}{R_2} \right]$$

I'll just do my hw here
$$\int ( \textit{lnt} )^2 dt$$

$$u= ( \textit{lnt} )^2$$
$$du=2( \textit{lnt} )( \frac{1}{t} )$$
$$dv= dt$$
$$v= \int dt = t$$

$$\int ( \textit{lnt} )^2 dt = ( \textit{lnt} )^2t - \int 2t( \textit{lnt} )( \frac{1}{t} )$$

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24. Feb 17, 2005

### Gokul43201

Staff Emeritus
Anyone (ambitwistor ?) know the symbol for the equilibrium (upper half of right arrow above lower half of left arrow) sign ?

25. Feb 17, 2005

### GCT

just trying things out
$$\xrightarrow{\leftarrow}$$

I noticed Monique's first post where she had the n,n over the arrow and figured one could go on from there.

$$\xrightarrow{\xleftarrow}$$

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